Alarm and camera packages with the price on the page

If you have nothing on the wall today, the Qolsys IQ Panel 4 on Alarm.com is what we fit most often, because PowerG sensors reach further than anything else and the panel photographs whoever disarms it. If you already have 2GIG or GoControl gear, the 2GIG Edge keeps your existing sensors. If you already have Honeywell or Resideo gear, the ProSeries panel on Total Connect 2.0 keeps yours. The package price is the same whichever you choose.

They are competing platforms that do broadly the same job: arm and disarm from your phone, sensor history, camera clips, smart locks, lights and thermostat. Alarm.com has the stronger video analytics and the wider third-party device list. Total Connect runs on Resideo's own AlarmNet network and is the natural fit if your existing equipment is Honeywell. Cameras have to match the platform, so the choice is made once, at the start.

When the sensor is a long way from the panel or there is a lot of building between the two: a detached garage, a shed, a gate, a pool house, or a brick and plaster house where the panel sits at one end. DSC PowerG on the Qolsys panel and the 2GIG E+ Series 900 MHz line on the Edge both reach much further than standard sensors. We work out on the site walk whether you need them, and they are priced per device in the add-ons.

Yes, and it moves with you. Every sensor talks to the panel wirelessly and nothing is cut into the structure, so there is no drilling through studs and no cable in the walls to leave behind. Two things do need power: the panel plugs into an outlet, and a video doorbell needs the existing bell transformer or a plug-in adapter, which is worth clearing with the landlord first. You own the equipment outright rather than financing it inside a monthly, so there is nothing to leave behind or buy out. When the lease ends we take it down, patch the few holes, and reinstall and retest it at your new address for the move-and-reinstall price in the add-ons. Your account, codes, app history and clips all carry over.

They are real starting prices for the equipment listed, on a normal house, and they are subject to change without notice. What moves them is the building rather than the sales call: more openings than the package covers, a panel location with no power near it, masonry that has to be drilled, or a long run out to a detached garage. We walk the property before we quote, and the written proposal is the number you pay, held for 30 days.

Yes, and the add-on prices are published on this page. Almost every job adds a few contacts or a camera. Anything added during the original install is charged at the add-on price listed, and anything can be added to a live system later without rebuilding it.

You pick the term: one, two or three years. It renews for the same length at the rates current at renewal unless either side gives written notice at least 30 days before the term ends. Ending it early is chargeable at 75 per cent of the payments remaining on the term, so pick the length you actually want rather than the cheapest monthly. Residential customers also get three business days after signing to cancel outright, and the notice form comes with the agreement. Read the term and the cancellation clause before you sign, here or anywhere else.

Equipment ownership. At $0 down the equipment is not free, it is financed inside the monthly, which is why the monthly is higher and why leaving mid-term costs so much. Here you buy the equipment outright at the install price and it is yours from day one, listed on a schedule attached to the agreement. What you sign for is the monitoring service, not the hardware.

Tell us what is on the wall and we will price the takeover instead of a rip-out. A 2GIG, Qolsys or DSC panel already on Alarm.com can usually keep its account and its sensors. Honeywell 5800 sensors carry over to a ProSeries panel. Older hardwired systems can often be kept too, with the existing contacts brought into a new panel through a wired-to-wireless translator. Takeover is listed in the add-ons.

Yes. The panel signals over cellular as its primary path, with Wi-Fi as the second, so an internet outage does not take the alarm offline. The panel has a backup battery that carries it through a power outage, and it reports the power failure to you and to the central station.

Both are banned under section 889 of the National Defense Authorization Act, which rules them out on federal, E-Rate and federally-grant-funded work. Rather than carry two standards we do not install them anywhere, on any job. The cameras in these packages are Alarm.com or Resideo, and our commercial camera line is Hanwha, all compliant.

Yes. Small commercial sites often fit the Whole Property package as written. Anything larger, anything with more than a handful of doors to control, or anything needing a monitored fire alarm gets a designed system rather than a package, because the code requirements and the inspection path are different.